She told the tribunal that when she went to her shared dormitory at the hostel in Smithfield, Dublin 7, she \u201cencountered a fully naked female guest standing inside the door\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe woman did not react with any sign of modesty,\u201d Corral told the tribunal. She said she was \u201cshocked\u201d and told the women her she was behaving inappropriately. <\/p>\n
The tribunal noted Corral\u2019s evidence that she went into a bathroom to \u201cgather herself\u201d and came back out, only to find that the woman was still undressed. <\/p>\n
She again told the woman the situation was \u201cinappropriate\u201d, at which point the woman became angry, Corral told a hearing last year. The complainant said she felt \u201cintimidated and threatened\u201d and left. <\/p>\n
The receptionist at the hostel \u201cdismissed\u201d Corral\u2019s concerns and told her the behaviour was \u201ca cultural matter\u201d, the complainant said. <\/p>\n
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Corral said she mentioned making a complaint to the WRC or to garda\u00ed, she told the hearing. <\/p>\n
In response, the hostel receptionist \u201cbecame aggressive\u201d and told Corral she faced being removed from the premises if she did not go away from the desk, the complainant added. <\/p>\n
She was ultimately moved to another room, but the receptionist would not let her extend her stay. Corral said she felt that she had been \u201ceffectively banned from the hostel without justification\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that I have been victimised because I reported sexual harassment and upon seeing the staff not taking any action about it other than changing me to another room,\u201d Corral wrote when she put the hostel operator on notice of her claim. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was threatened with being kicked out the hostel and I was not allowed to renew my stay. I was told to go to my room or I would be kicked out, with the uttermost unempathetic and victim-blaming victimisation attitude possible,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n
She cited race and gender as her protected grounds under equality law. <\/p>\n
Cillian McGovern, who appeared for the respondent instructed by Jason McMenamin of A & L Goodbody Solicitors argued Corral \u201cacted unreasonably\u201d in relation to the matter. <\/p>\n
He submitted that Corral \u201cflatly rejected\u201d two \u201creasonable options\u201d to resolve the matter \u2013 either to have a member of staff go and speak to the woman, or move her to another room. <\/p>\n
He argued the claim ought to be dismissed as either frivolous or vexatious. <\/p>\n
Corral had stayed at the hostel 55 times, including five more times after the incident. During 11 of her stays there, Corral had made complaints and received a \u201ccomplimentary upgrade\u201d, he said. <\/p>\n
In her decision on the case, adjudicator Monica Brennan wrote that Corral had not identified anyone who was or might have been treated more favourably than she was, given the circumstances. <\/p>\n
She ruled the complainant had failed to provide evidence establishing an inference of discrimination, meaning the discrimination complaint was \u201cnot well founded\u201d. <\/p>\n
However, Brennan noted that Corral\u2019s contention that she was refused an extension of her booking was backed up by an email written by the receptionist recounting his version of the events. <\/p>\n
She accepted Corral\u2019s unopposed evidence that this was a \u201cdirect response\u201d to opposing an alleged act of discrimination, an action shielded by the Equal Status Act. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor that reason, I find that the complainant was victimised within the meaning of the Act,\u201d Brennan wrote. <\/p>\n
She made no award of compensation, on the basis that Corral had later thanked the hostel\u2019s general manager for meeting her in response to the incident and went on to stay another two nights. <\/p>\n
Brennan ruled that the \u201cmost appropriate redress\u201d was a compliance order. <\/p>\n
She directed the company to \u201ctake steps to ensure that all public-facing staff have undergone, or are scheduled to undergo, training on individuals\u2019 rights under the Equal Status Acts\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The operator of the Generator Hostel in Dublin has been ordered to hold staff training on equality law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,6465],"class_list":["post-473598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-workplace-relations-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}